NOTE: The following information was taken from the VCT web site. The Virtual College of Texas (VCT) is a collaborative of Texas' fifty community college districts and the Texas State Technical College System. It functions as a service of the Texas Association of Community Colleges. Through VCT, students may take courses from colleges anywhere in Texas while getting support services from a local college.
To take a course from a remote college, a student enrolls at a local community or technical college. The local college supports the student with a full slate of student services, including advisement and counseling, financial aid, and learning resources. The local college receives the student's tuition, fees, and the state's reimbursement for the enrollment. This college also awards credit for the course and transcripts it.
The remote college provides course instruction. Assignments, tests, and grades are administered by one of its instructors. For this instructional service, the local college pays the remote college an "instructional lease fee," as specified in an agreement between the two colleges. This is not an additional fee for the student.
This arrangement between local and remote colleges makes it possible for VCT member colleges to leverage their distance learning resources -- including faculty, courses, support services, and technology -- to benefit students throughoutTexas no matter where they live or where instruction originates. |
